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There is a serious concern within the European Union that not enough is being done to implement new waste management proposals. The 370 million citizens of the EU are demanding action on this subject and they are right to do so. Waste in Europe is being generated at a rate of over 1kg per person per day. Two billion tonnes of waste is being generated within the EU on an annual basis. This situation cannot continue for ever.
The European Union must be clear about one aspect to solving waste disposal problems. The future of waste disposal does not lie in local authorities up and down the length and breadth of the European Union searching for new landfill sites. There is serious growing concern about the actual environmental consequences of landfill sites in general. I share this concern. I believe that nothing less then a major shift from reliance on landfill sites to more integrated waste management plans will suffice.
The European Parliament has been to the forefront in devising new waste management strategies in recent years. I support the objective of the directive which we are discussing here today which is to reduce the adverse effects of incineration on the environment and on human health by considerably reducing the emission levels into the air of several major pollutants. This is also part of broader European Union environmental policies which are designed to reduce the use of pollutants across all economic sectors in Europe, in accordance with obligations laid down by the Kyoto Accord.
The European Union fully supports the strict, ambitious but attainable recycling and recovery targets that have been laid down by the Irish Government. These targets which are to be achieved over the next 15 years include the following: a divergence of 50% of overall household waste from landfill sites; a minimum 65% reduction in bio-degradable waste which is presently consigned to landfill sites; the development of waste recovery facilities employing environmentally beneficial technologies capable of treating up to 300,000 tonnes of bio-degradable waste per annum.
All these measures reflect changing public opinions on the issue of waste management. The days of landfill sites are now coming to an end and must be replaced by more environmentally beneficial technologies."@en1
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